Display device



' Dec. 29, 1925- 1,567,170

J. V. PlLCHER DISPLAY DEVICE Filed March 16, 1925 In ue ni'or: Jbhn VBISZcia/er, )5 4,1 W M Aii ys.

Patented Dec. 29, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN V. PILCHER, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

DISPLAY DEVICE.

Application filed March 16, 1925. Serial No. 16,001.

To all whom. it may concern:

i Be it known that I, JOHN V. PILCHER, a citizen of the United States, and residentof Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Display Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to improvements in display devices, and particularly to display devices of the type embodying articles which are usually sold in pairs, such as collar and cuff buttons.

The invention aims to provide means by which one or more pairs of such articles ma be readily mounted in convenient shape an shipped to the trade in suitable packages or containers, whereby the articles will be securely held against accidental displacement during such shipment, and one in which the card bearing the articles may be utilized for display and from which the articles may be readily removed in pairs or sets for critical examinations, the individual buttons or articles of each pair be- ,ing also readily removed from their carrying or supporting member.

With these and other objects in view, the invention comprises the novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described, the nature and scope of my invention being defined and ascertained by the claims appended hereto.

What I regard at present as the preferred embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a foundation or supporting card holding a dozen pairs of cuff buttons as an example, one of the article bearing cards being removed to show the opening in full lines in, the foundation sheet.

Fig. 2 is a section on line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the article bearin card flexed for removal from the foundatlon sheet.

Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view of the device in display position, and

Fig. 5 is a detail view of one of the article cards with the buttons removed.

Referring by reference characters to this drawing, the numeral 1 designates a foundation or supporting sheet preferably of cardboard, which is provided with a plurality of stationary rectangular openings 1, the end edges .of which are provided with approximately centrally arranged notches or recesses 1*. 2 designates the article carrying members, which are of a resilient material capable of being flexed, conveniently of carciboard, of less thickness than the foundation sheet, which carrying members I will for convenience term cards. These cards are provided with openings 2 through which the articles carried by the card project, and which article have headed portions lying on the rear face of the card. The articles shown comprise cuff buttons of the separable type, such as shown for example in Letters Patent of the United States, dated August 12, 1924, No. 1,504,376, the two parts of the cuff button being snapped together with the shank or stud of one part projecting through the corresponding opening.

The openings in the foundation sheet are made of suflicient size to permit the headed portions which project from the rear of the card, to be passed therethrough when the card is flexed or bent, and each pair of articles is spaced apart such a distance on the carrying card that after the headed por .tions have been passed through the openings in the sheet and the carrying card flattened out, the contracted parts of said rearwardly projecting portions will be engaged by the adjacent notches whereby the card with its pair of articles will be retained against displacement in any direction.

By merely grasping a pair of buttons on the front of the card and drawing them towards each other by the thumb and finger,

it will be reaidly seen that any particular air of buttons may be readily removed rom the carrying card by operation of their respective parts.

The foundation sheet or member may he provided at its back with a folding brace or strut of theeasel type by which the sheet may be conveniently held in display position.

Having thus described my invcnti on, what. I claim is 1. Display means of the character dc scribed a foundation sheet having an opening therein, and an article carrying card carrying spaced articles which have parts projecting in rear of the card, which parts detachably engage the edges of said opening.

2. In a display device of the character described, the combination with a foundation sheet having an opening therein, of a card of resil ent mater al, card a y ng lllfl pair of spaced articles which have headed parts projecting from the rear of the card, the distance between said articles being such that when the card is flat the heads of said parts will engage the edges of the opening in the foundation sheet, but Will be disen gaged therefrom on flexing of the sheet' will be disengaged therefrom on. flexing of the sheet, said card being of a size to completely cover said opening.

4. In a display device of the character described, the combination With a foundation sheet having a substantially rectangular opening With notches centrally located in the end edges thereof,- of a card of resilient material, a pair of spaced articles carried thereby having headed parts projecting from the rear of the card, said articles being spaced apart such a distance that When the card is fiat the headed parts: Will engage said notches.

In testimony whereof, I afli'x my signature.

JOHN V. 

